I am an unabashed judger of books by their covers. In fact, my entire literary experience is almost completely determined by covers and I am painfully prejudiced against the ugly ones. Remember when everyone was fainting in the streets about these? I have to confess: I found them a little…meh. Or maybe I just mourned the lost opportunity of missed details. However, these leatherbound classics designed by Jessica Hische for Barnes and Noble still get my
heart racing.

Marbled endpapers, painted page edges, ribbon bookmarks, and illustrated drop caps—they totally nailed it. Of course Jessica always does. And good news: there are three more coming soon! I fully intend to collect the entire set and slowly displace Brian’s law library which is hogging prime real estate on our living room bookshelves.